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Cognitive Therapy
Beck's focus on CBT
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Psychology
Graduate
12/16/2012

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Key Concepts
Definition
1. insight focused
2. emphasizes changing negative thoughts and maladaptive behaviors
3.people's internal communication is accessible to introspection
4. clients beliefs have highly personal meanings
5. meanings can be discovered by the client rather than being taught or interpreted by the therapist
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Goals
Definition
change the way clients think about by using their automatic thoughts to reach their core schemata and begin to introduce the idea of schema restructuring
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Principles
Definition
automatic thoughts: personalized notions that are triggered by particular stimuli that lead to emotional responses.
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Basic Theory
Definition
understanding the nature of an emotional episode or disturbance, it is essential to focus on cognitive content of an individuals reaction to the upsetting event or stream of thoughts
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Cognitive Disortions
Definition
arbitrary inferences (thinking absolute worst scenario w.o relevant evidence), selective abstraction (forming conclusions based on isolated detail of an event), over-generalization (extreme beliefs from a single event held inappropriately to dissimilar events or settings), magnification and minimization (looking at something in a greater or lesser light than it truly deserves), personalization (relating external events to oneself w.o basis of connection), labeling and mislabeling (applying ones identity on basis of past mistakes to identity them today), polarized thinking (categorizes experiences in either - or extremes)
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Cognitive Triad
Definition
1. client holds negative view of themselves.
2. selective abstraction occurs; client interprets life events through a negative filter.
3. Client holds gloomy vision of future
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Limitations of CBT
Definition
extensive training is required to practice CBT, therapist may misuse power and impose ideas of what is rational thinking to them, strong confrontational style of Ellis' REBT may overwhelm some clients, may overlook value of exploring one's past
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